Mobile collaboration is required in several work scenarios, i.e.
education, healthcare, business and disaster relief. The features and capabilities
of the communication infrastructure used by mobile collaborative applications
will influence the type of coordination and collaboration that can be supported
in real work scenarios. Developers of these applications are typically unaware
of the constraints the communication infrastructure imposes on the
collaborative system. Therefore, this paper presents an experimental study of
how ad-hoc networks can effectively support mobile collaborative work. The
article analyzes several networking issues and it determines how they influence
the collaborative work. The paper also presents the lessons learned and it
provides recommendations to deal with the networking issues intrinsic to adhoc
networks.